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Week 8 Reading and Writing

These past several weeks of readings have been highly enjoyable for me.  Since I am in my final semester of my International Relations, three of my five classes are in my major and a lot of my other readings can be somewhat repetitive and occasionally uninteresting.  It has been so much fun to be able to read something non-academic, with creativity and occasionally humor.  I love reading, but sometimes hour after hour of political theory can really start to wear on you.  This class and the readings here are something that I look forward to doing because it is such a nice, refreshing break.

My favorite unit so far has actually been last week’s unit on Africa.  I read an anthology about Anansi, the trickster spider god, and I actually found myself laughing out loud at some of the things that happened in the stories.  Although I didn’t really know what I wanted to do for the story post, and wasn’t 100% satisfied even when I had finished, it is so nice to be able to have this creative expression output in an otherwise very dry academic calendar.


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I look forward to finishing my story project as well for the same reason.  It will be interesting and a great learning experience, but it should mostly serve as a good way for me to express my inner creativity and grow as a writer as well.

I chose this picture of cliffs to accompany one of my stories of Persephone jumping off the cliffs into the invisible arms of Zephyr.  It is such a beautiful image, and I can almost feel as if I am standing right there.
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